Samsonite is a silver manganese antimony sulfosalt mineral with formula Ag4MnSb2S6. It crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system with a typical slender radiating prismatic habit. It is metallic black to steel black with no cleavage and a brittle to conchoidal fracture. In thin fragments it appears reddish brown in transmitted light and also leaves a red streak. It is soft, Mohs hardness of 2.5, and has a specific gravity of 5.51.

It was first described in 1910 for an occurrence in the Samson Vein of the Sankt Andreasberg silver mines, Harz Mountains, Germany.

Everyone's after the ultimate weapon --"nanomites" contained in a suitcase (Samsonite?) that can burst into clouds of what look like bad-ass termites that devour everything in sight in disaster scenes that look like they were recycled from "The Mummy." That movie and this one share a director, Stephen Sommers, who also inexplicably places the Joes' HQ beneath the Great Pyramids (hell, sand worked before), uses the guy who played the Mummy as a baddie named Zartan, and even dusts off Brendan Fraser, who pops up in the Joes' training center but has nothing to do but watch G.I. Joe for five minutes. Which is about how long most viewers are going to be able to stand it. Ana goes to much effort to steal back the nanomite Samsonite for her boss, a Scottish arms dealer, even though he's the guy who made the thing in the first place. He also keeps forgetting to check whether his baby's LoJack is on and giving away his position.

Samsonite owes its start to Colorado native Jesse Shwayder. After growing up in the American West during the late 1800s, Shwayder was working in New York as a salesman for the Seward Trunk and Bag Company by his mid-20s. He was making a lot of money, but he missed Colorado and longed to pursue his dream of starting his own business. Thus, Shwayder quit his job when he was 28 and moved back to Denver. Shortly thereafter, on March 10, 1910, he founded the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company with his life's savings of $3,500. With a work force of 10 men, Shwayder began manufacturing what were known as suitcases in a 50-by-125-foot room that he had rented in downtown Denver. The management philosophy he adopted to guide the firm from day one, according to company annals, was the Golden Rule ("Do unto others ..."), to which Shwayder adhered tenaciously.

Shwayder Trunk revenues rocketed to $300,000 by 1924. In that year, the brothers moved their operation into a gleaming new 80,000-square-foot factory in south Denver; that plant was gradually expanded to include a total of 500,000 square feet. The plant was organized to operate on an assembly-line basis, and even incorporated a state-of-the art conveyor system to transport products and materials in the plant. The company boasted in its literature that it built suitcases the same way that Ford built automobiles.

Published: 9:26PM BST 30 May 2009Samsonite bags debt- for-equity rescue dealThe world's biggest luggage maker, Samsonite, has agreed an eleventh hour rescue with its private equity owners CVC that will see lender Royal Bank of Scotland take a majority stake in the business. The British taxpayer is about to become part-owner of Samsonite

"Before proceeding to give a list of the principal abbreviations, it may be observed that the doubling of a letter is intended to express the plural of that word of which the single letter is the abbreviation."

Could lead in the wrong direction tho, depending on the nature of the code.

I know Queen Elizabeth has vast land holding in Colorado, and Kentucky, but I had read somewhere and I'm sure you could Google this....but I had read that she owned the property that the Denver Airport sits on.

Please take another look at the photos, the locks on both suitcases are all open. The one Right lock is albeit not as fully open as the others, but it is open and casts a shadow.

My vote is D-R stands for "Deutschland Republic, and along with all of the other Germanic and Nazi symbolism used in the murals it stands for the "Pandora's Box" we brought on ourselves with the wholesale importation of Naziism into our country packed in the suitcases of all the WWII scientists briought here under Operation Paperclip.

The key here is the "Gargoyle" is the letter G in GDR, stands for German Democratic Republic.

East Germany, was the informal Western name for the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic, GDR), the socialist state established in the Soviet occupation zone of Nazi Germany, and in the East Berlin portion of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany.

The GDR existed for forty-one years (1949–90), and was a political, military, and economic member of the Eastern Bloc and the Warsaw Pact; at German reunification (3 October 1990), its länder (states) were integrated as new states of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). The German Democratic Republic in eastern Germany was disestablished consequent to the 18 March 1990 general election, when the Government of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany lost its parliamentarian majority in the Volkskammer (Peoples’s Chamber); subsequently, on 23 August 1990, the Volkskammer re-established the five pre-war states — Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia (disestablished in 1952) — for the GDR’s reunification to the Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968) Was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”? He went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”